Once you have downloaded the software for either Mac or Windows, you can launch the program. Next, program your stream deck. On the bottom right there is a button for more actions. Install custom action like a CPU usage monitor, an analog clock, and support for 3rd party streaming software such as vMix. Support for OBS, Mixer, StreamLabs, Twitch, Twitter, xSplit, and YouTube are built-in by default. Add commands by dragging and dropping the commands to appear on your StreamDeck to the buttons represented in this application. You can customize the name of each button. You will also be presented with options for configuration.

We start by setting up OBS and creating a scene for each PTZOptics camera. We use a web browser input to automatically control our PTZ cameras when we switch to our OBS scenes. Open OBS and add a scene for your first camera. Add your camera source and a browser source. Inside the browser, the source uses the HTTP command for calling a camera preset. Set up your camera preset in the location you would like the camera to be. Don’t forget to click the “Refresh Browser when the scene becomes active” button to make sure OBS sends the PTZOptics camera a preset command every time you switch to this input. Duplicate this scene and change the HTTP command to represent a new camera PTZ preset.

Optionally, send P TZ camera preset commands directly to PTZOptics cameras. This may be a better option for remotely controlling your cameras. To do this, set up another profile in your StreamDeck for each PTZOptics camera to control. In your newly created profile, choose the “Website” option under the systems tab. Here, name your preset and enter the HTTP command from the list available on https://ptzoptics.com/downloads.

Note: You will need to know your cameras IP address in order to use HTTP commands. Generally, an HTTP command contains multiple variables used to communicate with your PTZOptics camera over IP.

You can customize the variables in the HTTP command to perform various video production actions with your PTZOptics robotic camera. Do not forget to click “Access in Background” option so that your StreamDeck does not open up a new web-browser every time that you use the button. And that’s it! You now know how to set up an Elgato Stream Deck to control OBS and PTZOptics cameras. Setting this system up with other video production systems will be a fairly similar process. If you have questions please let us know in the comments below. We are really enjoying this new StreamDeck and look forward to sharing more in the future! So don’t forget to subscribe!

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